One company, diverse workplaces: the social construction of employment practices in Western and Eastern Europe
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New York, NY [u.a.]
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2010
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| Item Description: | "The book offers an inquiry into the construction of employment practices in a multinational company across Western and Eastern Europe. In the complex corporate and host-country influences, social interaction between the firm and local actors is presented as the underlying social mechanism through which work practices are constructed"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Contents
List of Tables ix
List ofFigures x
List of Abbreviations xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Multinationals and Employment
Practices across Europe 1
Multinationals approaches to the construction of
employment practices 4
The empirical case 9
The argument 11
Outline of chapters 13
1 Constructing Employment Practices in Multinationals:
A Framework for Analysis 18
Understanding employment practices 19
Organizational approaches to company behaviour 21
Institutionalist approaches to company behaviour 26
Micro-foundations of constructing employment practices 28
Assumptions on behaviour and social interaction 30
Actors and their attributes 32
Social interaction 35
Forms of social interaction 39
Social interaction as means of constructing
employment practices 41
Conclusions 43
2 One Multinational, Four Host Countries: On Diversity
in Subsidiary Employment Practices 45
Electra as case study 46
Electra s subsidiaries 49
Hard employment practices 52
Wage policy and wages 53
Employment flexibility 54
Numerical flexibility 54
vi Contents
External flexibility 55
Internal flexibility 57
Functional flexibility 59
Summary 60
Soft employment practices 60
Work organization 61
Motivation, performance pay and employee
participation 64
Social rewards and fringe benefits 68
Subsidiary employment practices and local standards 71
Conclusions 74
3 Channelling Corporate Values and Interests: Social
Interaction within the Multinational 76
Electra s past legacy for current challenges 77
Administrative heritage - the formation of
corporate values 78
The formation of corporate interests, organization
and strategy 80
Internal and external forces shaping Electra s
organization and behaviour 83
Interaction between headquarters and subsidiaries 86
Production issues 87
Employment issues 89
Interaction between Electra s sister subsidiaries 93
Analysis of social interaction within Electra 95
Conclusions 97
4 Building a Local Corporate Presence: Social Interaction
between the Multinational and Local Societies 98
Beyond the subsidiaries gates: Electra and the local
industry structure 100
Electra s social interaction with the local society 105
Labour market actors 105
Municipalities and local governments 108
Citizens, media and other local actors 111
Committed to being local? 113
Conclusions 116
5 From Bargaining to Dancing: Social Interaction between
the Multinational, Local Workers and Trade Unions 118
Management-worker interaction in
Electra subsidiaries 120
Contents vii
Electra and national industrial relations in
Western and Eastern Europe 124
Industrial relations in Electra s subsidiaries 128
Negotiating employment flexibility practices with
subsidiary trade unions 133
Analysis of social interaction between Electra and
subsidiary employee representatives 139
Conclusions 146
6 Social Foundations of Trade Union Influence: Cross-Border
Interaction of Unions and Employee Representatives 148
Coopération and competition in cross-border
trade unionism 150
Cross-border trade union interaction: a national and
sectoral perspective 153
Cross-border trade union interaction: a company-level
perspective 157
Institutionalized cross-border interaction: the European
Works Council 163
The EWC in Electra 164
Informal functioning of the Euroforum: between
friendships and antagonism 166
Euroforum versus trade unions 167
Two faces of cross-border interaction 169
Conclusions 172
7 Accounting for Diversity: The Social Construction
of Employment Practices 175
Uncovering diversity in employment practices 176
Accounting for diversity 179
Unfolding social interaction in Electra 185
Interaction channels and forms 186
Electra s corporate headquarters and subsidiary
managements (cc) 186
Interaction among Electra s sister factories (j3) 187
Electra s interaction with local actors (y) 188
Interaction between trade unions and the European
Works Council (5) 190
Complementarities in interaction forms 191
Sustainability of social interaction for diversity in
employment practices 193
Conclusions 194
viii Contents
8 Multinationals, Employment Practices and
Institutional Change from below 197
Implications of MNC behaviour and the social
construction of employment practices 200
Preconditions for social interaction: compatibility of
actors interests with host-country institutions 201
Embedding as institution building from below 205
Reflections on the social construction of
employment practices 207
Appendix 214
Notes 218
Bibliography 242
Index 255
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